Taxi companies don't want to compete with Uber though, they just want to outlaw them and go back to their monopoly.
They don't want or need to outlaw Uber. Uber is already illegal. All the taxis want is for the competition to have obey the same laws, which legally they do. In practice, Uber chooses not to obey the law.
I'm also inclined to wonder how France plans to handle self-driving cars which will 100% definitely be replacing cab drivers in the next 10-15 years.
They won't, for the simple reason that this 100% likelihood has 0% chance of happening.
... government regulators couldn't possibly find financial irregularities by grabbing you documents from the cloud service provider,
The courts said you have no expectation of privacy one you put your data in the hands of a third party. Great! Let's convince all those "evil corporations" to store all their data in the cloud. Then the government can go after them any time they want. B-b
I hope the next president does away with this BS act! Tax people that don't have health care, and charge the rest an insane amount to have health care. 0.o This act needs to go.
They are not taxing people who don't have healthcare. They are taxing people who don't have insurance. There is a difference. Making people pay for insurance does not guarantee healthcare. It guarantees that the insurance company gets paid. After paying for insurance, people may not be able to afford to go to the doctor.
Only 16 out of 50 states chose to create state health exchanges, even though the law stated that by not doing the citizens of the remaining 34 states would not get federal subsidies (the whole point of the Supreme Court case).
Well, that explains why I am not getting any assistance with Healthcare. I keep seeing commercials touting how "Most people receive assistance with their premium", lies fed to us by the Federal government. When I lost my job, I was expecting that I might get some subsidy to help with my healthcare payments, but no, they healthcare portal said I do not qualify for anything, not even tax credit. I still have to pay my full healthcare premium, plus pay my taxes so that other people can enjoy not having to pay their premiums.
My insurance has gone up over $200 a month in the last two years, and my company has switched insurance providers twice to limit the increase to only $200 a month.
That's nothing, mine went from under $200 a month for a Major Medical Policy to over $950 for the same policy. I then got a new policy on the exchange, the cheapest one possible was about $350 a month, more than double my previous premium, and it doesn't cover my kids, and the deductibles are higher.
your freedom of speech is hindered by not having access to telecommunications infrastructure
Nope, your freedom of speech is not dependent upon any particular means of expression. You can stand on the street corner and express your views, but nobody is required to buy you a megaphone, or internet access, or Reuters.
Why don't these poor, hard done by 'youth of color' (LOL) LEAVE and go and live in the country of their ancestors?
They could do one or the other, but not both. The country of their ancestors, for the last 10 or so generations is the United States.
I think that using smart pointers and RAII pattern is in all respects better than garbage collection.
I agree. If I am done with a reference, I am done with it right now. If I want to delete() my reference right now, then I want to delete it right now. If I am worried about CPU cycles over memory at the moment, then I can make it put off deleting in my code. I really like Java and do most of my coding in Java, but the two things I wish were in Java is a deconstructor and the ability to recover memory for a particular object at my discretion.
Except the C++ source code navigation, which they destroyed in the C# version (after VS2008 ?). And except that the editor is no longer real-time on my machine. Which is a monster with 20GByte RAM.
I need a plugin(!) to just get proper source code navigation back.
In other words, Dumbing Down To C# has fucked up Visual Studio. I hope the Politically Correct Pussy In Charge will soon be booted into some harmless Government Chair. Get me the real C++ guys back, Microsoft. Visual Studio must be de-pussified !
I code in C++ and Java and I have noticed as well that the supposedly low-level fast code in VS is much slower than the interpreted code in Eclipse. Incredibly slow on VS is the context sensitive help. I have trouble understanding why VS is so slow. The feature set seems to be much more limited than Eclipse, so I can't imagine what it is spending all it's time doing. Heck VS doesn't even have Variable name refactoring out of the box, yet it is slow, slow, slow.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
